A Denver-based marijuana entrepreneur wants to start a specialized farmers market for pot in Boulder, but the proposal faces significant legal and political hurdles.

Justin Hartfield, CEO of weedmaps.com and managing partner of Ghost Group, a marijuana venture capital group, sees the potential in giving vendors access to consumers and consumers a greater level of choice.

He said the Boulder County Farmers’ Market is a model for similar institutions around the country, and an organic cannabis farmers market would build on that tradition. “It would be the perfect place to have a proposal go through,” he said.

Hartfield said he’s trying to get a sense of how Boulder politicians and planning officials would view such a proposal.

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